108 MISCELLANIES. 



Spurzheim, and were communicated to us during a visit we had the pleasure of 

 paying Mr. L. some time since. — Ed. 



BOTANY. 



Oenothera speciosa. — This species has been cultivated several years in Europe 

 as an ornamental plant, but it is a new fact that it secretes at the bottom of its 

 corolla a sweet liquid, which is glutinous enough to retain prisoners several species 

 of Sphinx, especially those which frequent the Vine, the Bindweed, and the 

 Milk Thistle. 



Agaricus cochleatus, Eng. Fl. V. II. p. 69. — " Inverary" is the only recorded 

 station for this rare Agaric in Scotland. It may therefore be worth while to 

 mention, that I gathered it in great perfection, on November 17, 1836, in the 

 plantation around Foulden House, Berwickshire. — George Johnston, M. D. 



Additions to Cooper's Flora Metropolitana. — Silene olites. — This uncommon 

 plant, in the vicinity of London, was discovered in Charlton Chalk-pit, Kent, last 

 summer, by Miss S. Berkeley, from whom I possess specimens. — Crocus aureus, 

 • — I also found this not very uncommon species, in Charlton Wood, in company 

 with Messrs. Chatterley and Lee, who also met with it in Battersea Fields. 

 The locality in Charlton Wood is rather complicated. This species is not men- 

 tioned in Lindley's Synopsis. — Daniel Cooper. — Magazine of Zoology and 

 Botany, Vol. I., p. 495—6. 



Addition to the paper on the Medicinal Plants of Yorkshire. — I take 

 this opportunity of inserting an unintentional omission, as well as of correcting a 

 slight error which occurred in the paper on the Medicinal and Poisonous Plants 

 of Yorkshire, in the last No. of the Naturalist. After Artemisia asynthium, insert 

 the Common Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare. Herb ; aromatic, &c. Banks of the 

 Ouse, above and below York. — An old herbarist who lived at York, and whose 

 death was announced in the papers a few months ago, informed me that, with an 

 assistant, he on one occasion went up the Ouse in a boat, and as he proceeded 

 cut the Tansy, which grew in profusion on the banks for some miles. He re- 

 turned the following day, and on bringing them home, found, if I remember 

 rightly, that the produce of his day's work amounted to about 70 stone in weight. 

 —•Under the head of Menyanthes tri/oliata, " North East" has been accidentally 

 inserted for North West, of Yorkshire. — E. Doncaster, April 20, 1837. 



